I’m interested how you guys deal with the topic shame about antidepressants, assuming you’re someone who takes themselves.
I’m a first year medstudent who started taking antidepressants 6 months ago, as I felt deeply depressed, anxious, underslept by being overwhelmed by the first semester.
The med helped me a lot, especially with my appetite (which was so bad) and sleep too to some degree.
Over the months I’ve continued taking it at the lowest dose and tried to go off of it 2 weeks ago, but it back fired with getting more anxious and falling into a bad week of insomnia.
I have a hard time accepting that it’s ok for me to take this just to function normally. Do you have any advice? (Btw I’m also in therapy atm since a month)